Books by Gary Graybill

Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Getting even w/ junk mailers and telemarketers

(1) When a Telemarketer Calls, say: "Hold On, Please..."

Saying
this, while putting down your phone and walking off (instead of
hanging-up immediately) would make each telemarketing call so much more
time-consuming that boiler room sales would grind to a halt.

Then
when you eventually hear the phone company's "beep-beep-beep" tone, you
know it's time to go back and hang up your handset, which has
efficiently completed its task.

(2) Do you ever get those annoying phone calls with no one on the other end?

This
is a telemarketing technique where a machine makes phone calls and
records the time of day when a person answers the phone.

This technique is used to determine the best time of day for a "real" sales person to call back and get someone at home.

What
you can do after answering, if you notice there is no one there, is to
immediately start hitting your # button on the phone, 6 or 7 times, as
quickly as possible. This confuses the machine that dialed the call and it kicks your number out of their system.

(3) Junk Mail Ads:

When
you get "ads" enclosed with your phone or utility bill, return these
"ads" with your payment. Let the sending companies throw their own junk
mail away.

When you get those "pre-approved" letters in the mail
for everything from credit cards to 2nd mortgages and similar type
junk, do not throw away the return envelope.

Most of these come with postage-paid return envelopes, right.

It
costs them nothing if you throw them away! The postage was around 50
cents before the last increase and it is according to the weight. In
that case, why not get rid of some of your other junk mail and put it in
these cool little, postage-paid return envelopes.

One of Andy Rooney's (60 minutes) ideas. Send an ad for your local chimney cleaner to American Express. Send a pizza coupon to Citibank. If you didn't get
anything else that day, then just send them their blank application
back!

If you want to remain anonymous, just make sure your name isn't on anything you send them.

You can even send the envelope back empty if you want to just to keep them guessing!

Eventually, the banks and credit card companies will begin getting their own junk back in the mail.

Let's let them know what it's like to get lots of junk mail, and best of all they're paying for it...Twice!

Let's
help keep our postal service busy since they are saying that e-mail is
cutting into their business profits, and that's why they need to
increase postage costs again. You get the idea

Today's Reflection:

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence and deny any knowledge of it!